The fine folks over at Adventuregamers.com have taken on one of the most herculean tasks in video-game-list-writing: They have assembled a list of not the top 10, not the top 20, but the top 100 adventure games of all time. It's a really good list, too.

The list was part of a multi-part series they ran, and each game has its own entry along which nicely includes a list of "If you like this, you might like" suggestions. I highly recommend checking it out. Just for fun, I thought I'd assemble the full top 100 list here, just to see how it looks when you can see 'em all at once.

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Personally, I think it looks pretty good! I certainly can't argue with the #1 choice, which is one of my very favorite games of all time. And not just because of the music, which is both a symptom and a cause of that particular game's awesomeness.

I dare you to read this list and not want to go back and play at least one of these. For me, it was Tex Murphy, which I barely got to play when I was younger, even though I remember reading printed walkthroughs just so that I could experience the game in some form.

Here's the list, with links to their respective adventuregamers.com pages:

Some thoughts: Nice to see Amnesia get some love in there, and also nice to see Gabriel Knight 2 above the original. While Sins of the Fathers will always have a place in my heart, I too prefer the second one. Shadow of the Templars really is great, isn't it? I'm several hours into the iOS version, and while I haven't played in a while, this made me want to return.

I also like how this list includes current-gen adventure games (it is an "all time" list, after all). There are some great ones, from Gemini Rue to games you wouldn't necessarily think of as "Adventure Games" like Heavy Rain and L.A. Noire. I don't know if I'd really call Portal an adventure game, and I don't know how I feel about putting all of the Infocom text adventures in one category (or about ranking them 50th!) but then again, I think I get it. Otherwise they would have taken up twenty or so spots.

Anyhow, head on over to the site and check out the full write-ups. It's a well-curated collection of games that are entirely worth celebrating.